A Noble Craft Restored: Williams-Mystic, F08, and the MORGAN
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Posted by: Elizabeth Berilla
Under
a cloudless sky on Saturday morning November 1st, the Charles W.
Morgan, the world’s last remaining wooden whaleship and pride of Mystic
Seaport, was brought ashore on the new shiplift for an extensive three-year renovation project at the Museum's Dupont Preservation Shipyard. Program Director and Marine Ecology professor Jim Carlton led half of
the F08 students under the Morgan, which had been in the water for more
than 9 years, to sample the fouling and wood-boring communities.
The
sampling team took nearly 100 samples, the most ever retrieved from a
vessel brought ashore at Mystic Seaport. Alerted to the presence of
live fish in the Morgan's bilge water (which are presumed to have
entered in their larval stage through small holes in the hull), Jim,
Shipyard Director Quentin Snediker, Museum Senior Vice-President Susan
Funk F77, Williams-Mystic oceanographer Lisa Gilbert F96, and Greg
Albright F08, climbed aboard the ship and sampled the bilges, finding
amphipods and seasquirts, but not the elusive fish.
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